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Why People Say Capitalism is Violent (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rockSlayer to c/leftism

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

You seem to be arguing words and not ideas.

You, "Bingo bango! You made a statement that can be technically untrue, therefore you are entirely incorrect!"

Debunking someone's point first requires engaging with it and you never even came close. So what about Mesopotamia? Let's take your word on that, does it change the core point? Nope.

You, "Shazam! People were stabbing before capitalism, therefore when someone gets stabbed under capitalism, it's fine! Shazam!"

Then you go on to say that because a certain type of violence happened before capitalism, it's cool that it exists.

You, "Kersplat! You are icky, and I will stop there, the rest of your post is probably stupid anyway!"

Do you have brain damage my dude?

As I understand it, the comic states :
1. Create penalties for not being a property/capital-owner.
2. Acquire property/capital through violence
3. With violently acquired capital-backing, use step #1 to exert control
4. Population attacks itself to avoid rule #1, clawing to attain property/capital
5. The system promotes population infighting, allowing the power-holders to exist un-noticed.

Who gives a shit about who invented the baton when you're getting hit in the face. Well, I expect that you do.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Capitalism is not violent and greedy. Humans are violent and greedy.

Economic systems and sociocultural organization principles are irrelevant and attributing historical human violence to them is fallacious.

you go on to say that because a certain type of violence happened before capitalism, it's cool that it exists.

No, I specifically did not make any such argument, and made a statement about this in my conclusion because I anticipated that someone would attempt to dismiss what I said by deliberately misinterpreting it and then putting words in my mouth. Did you even read my entire post?

Who gives a shit about who invented the baton when you're getting hit in the face.

The person that made this cartoon cares, and clearly so do you, as you both want to pin it on a particular source for purely emotional reasons, which is evidenced by the fact that you have made no rational argument based on fact and instead have attempted to dismiss what I wrote while presenting zero evidence for your own point of view.

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